| Title |
Additional papers relating to the collection and to Johnston's punches |
| Reference |
MS Add.9818/D |
| Covering Dates |
1945-1967 |
| Extent and Medium |
ca. 1 box |
|
| Content and context |
Some items in this series were transferred from the University Archives (accession no. 2005/56). |
| Index Terms |
| Morison, Stanley Arthur (1889-1967) Editor Typographer |
| Manuscripts/MS Add.9818/D contains: |
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1
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Correspondence relating to the purchase of Johnston's punches by Stanley Morison. Correspondents include George T. Friend, J. H. Mason, Monotype Corporation (J. C. Tarr), Stevens Shanks & Sons Ltd (Douglas Stevens). With these letters are letters from Morison to Brooke Crutchley about the dispatch of the punches to Cambridge University Press.
1 folder. |
1945-1950 |
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2
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Punch proofs of founts designed by Edward Johnston. Six smoke-proofs on separate leaves: 2-line Brevier roman and italic (90 punches); 2-line brevier roman capitals (24 punches); Greek lowercase (9 punches); 10 point Black upper and lower case (77 punches); 12 point Black upper and lower case, and numerals (130 punches); 18 point Black upper and lower case and numerals (136 punches). There are duplicate sets of proofs for the last 5. With the cover of a loose-leaf book, so marked, from which these pages have been removed. It is dated 1946 in pencil.
1 folder. |
1946 |
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3
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Inventory of Cranach Press punches and matrices. Includes 2 sets of smoke-proofs, one marked 'Impressions of punches made at C.U.P. 1950'.
1 folder. |
1950 |
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4
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Photographs. Mostly photographic copies of Johnston's drawings. Many of these are identified as being made for Alan Fern. Other photographs were made for John Dreyfus's Italic quartet (1966). With these is a set of 13 negatives labelled 'Negatives of Johnston papers given to Alan Fern in Spring 1955 by the daughters of E. Johnston'; and a tear-sheet of Fern's article 'The count and the calligrapher'.
4 folders. |
1955-1965 |
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5
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Letters from George T. Friend to John Dreyfus. Two autograph ms. letters, 1 a photocopy; with a covering memorandum from Brooke Crutchley.
1 folder. |
1961-1967 |
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6
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Correspondence between Count Harry Kessler and Edward Johnston. Typescript so captioned, listing letters 1904-1913 and summaries of their contents. This was probably made for John Dreyfus's use in writing Italic quartet. The list corresponds to part of series A of this collection, including letters besides those between Kessler and Johnston.
28 sheets. |
1965 |
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7
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Photocopies of letters relating to the Greek type. The letters were apparently copied for John Dreyfus. With the photocopies is a letter to him from Geoffrey Kirk, undated.
ca. 100 sheets. |
1965 |
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